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LGBTQ+ Activists Raise Pride Flag Over Stonewall After Its Removal by Trump Administration

HeadlineFeb 13, 2026

Here in New York, cheers erupted as elected officials joined LGBTQ+ activists who raised a rainbow flag over the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan on Thursday. Their defiant protest came days after the Trump administration removed a rainbow flag that had flown for years above the site of the 1969 Stonewall rebellion — a landmark event in U.S. civil rights history. This is New York City resident Nicholle Mallette.

Nicholle Mallette: “We will not be erased. We will not go back in the closet. No taking down of any flag will … remove us from our nation and the legacy that we have built as human beings, as citizens.”

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